Joey Paul wept as a State Police investigator read intimate details from an affidavit describing her personal life and the moments before and after she says she accidentally shot her boyfriend, Matthew Furlani, dead with his own AK-47 assault-style rifle inside their Schuylerville apartment last summer.

Investigator Kevin Noto testified during a pretrial hearing Tuesday in Saratoga County Court that Paul, then 28 and a new mother, began voluntarily talking to him on July 1 as he and Trooper Aaron Stefanik, the arresting officer, who also took the stand, transported her to the Wilton barracks.

Once there, Noto said, he reminded Paul of her right to remain silent before continuing to question her for about six hours about the killing and the days leading up to it.

On the stand, Noto read Paul's sworn statement, which provided a graphic account of the shooting.

According to the statement, she and Furlani, whom she had dated on and off for years, were lying on the bed when they heard a knock at the door. Furlani apparently thought it was one of her ex-boyfriends and jumped up and grabbed his loaded AK-47 from under bed, cocked it and handed it to her, the statement said.

According to the statement, she handed the gun back to Furlani with the barrel pointed toward him. Paul said he then "grabbed it kind of hard and it went off."

Under questioning from Assistant District Attorney Lyn Murphy, Noto denied several times that he coerced, threatened or promised to Paul that she would be going home, a claim her defense attorney, Fred Rench, made during cross-examination. The hearing was held to determine what evidence will be allowed in during the trial.

Rench wants Judge Jerry Scarano to throw out Paul's sworn statements during her trial on murder, manslaughter and gun charges, all second-degree felonies, because he says police consistently misled his client.

On the top count, Paul faces 25 years to life in prison, if convicted. The trial is scheduled to get under way with jury selection on Aug. 12. Paul has pleaded not guilty.

Scarano will issue a written decision in the future about the admissibility of Paul's sworn statement.